This situation where bots have to run a headless browser in a new profile is just stupid. Can we have the old internet back? Please? Cloudflare you're not stopping bots, you're just wasting effort on both sides while siphoning access logs and passwords to the NSA.
Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
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#62Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.
I suppose it searches your configured sources for that movie and comes back "not found"
Stremio does this. Stremio is a legal application that finds media from any configured plugin. You're supposed to add the illegal Torrentio plugin to automatically pirate media. By doing it this way, most development can take place in public.
A similar situation exists with the emulator Azahar and the illegal fork Azahar Plus which can automatically decrypt games.
Edit: lolno this project just has pirate sites built into it
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#63I thought the whole point of turnstile was that it detects headless browsers and it's supposed to be "difficult" to bypass. Apparently this just simulates clicking on the checkmark. Is it really that easy?
The point of Turnstile is to sell a warm fuzzy feeling of security to website owners, block Tor users who don't enable JavaScript, and convince website owners to give a copy of all their traffic to the NSA for free.
Actual security is barely relevant except to the extent that if it doesn't add any security, the NSA might get worried that people will stop using Cloudflare.
Fake security - number of blocked users, which Cloudflare calls "bots" regardless of whether they're people or bots - is used in Cloudflare marketing.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a CLI that lets you select a movie, finds a matching stream from streaming websites, transcodes it, burns in subtitles in real time, and tells your TV to play it.
Do I need to bring my own sources or is there a maintained list?
it comes preconfigured with three different illegal pirate sites.
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#65Seems to be missing some context. What is this used for? Piracy?
I am not sure how this would help with piracy? It can only play a stream you already have access to, it doesn’t break encryption or anything.
You already have access to pirated streams. This app plays them for you. Check the source addresses in config.yaml.
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#66>Castor launches headless Chrome with a randomized fingerprint and stealth scripts to hide automation. you lost me in there.
I work with browser fingerprinting, so I took a look at the repo to see what it actually does. From what I can tell, it only patches navigator, the Audio API, and the Canvas API. That is pretty basic, so it will likely get flagged easily.
Depends what you're trying to bypass. Cloudflare isn't as strict as Google.
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#67We're just throwing straight up piracy on HN now? We're vibing piracy now? Felonies via API?
Yes. Unironically yes. Except that it's a misdemeanor. It's a felony for the author of this code and for dang if he doesn't remove this post (distributing piracy tools), but it's a misdemeanor for the ones watching the streams.
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#68- very stupid comment: i still have no idea what this project does even after reading the README - can someone kindly explain what is the actual problem statement and what the author is trying to solve here?
You type in the ID of a movie and it pirates it for you
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#69Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.
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#70> I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay. Looks like Claude built it.
Claude helped me out for sure, i'm not a DLNA or FFMPEG beast, but i solved a problem I had and that's what matters. If it solved a problem you have, even better.